the character or force in conflict with a main character
What is antagonist?
100
The main point a writer is trying to make in an argumentative text.
What is the claim?
100
a statement that cannot be proven true or false
What is opinion?
100
Identify the type of figurative language:
"John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
200
The reason an author writes a work.
What is author's purpose?
200
the overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths
What is theme?
200
This summarizes the author's thesis statement, and main points in an explanatory text.
What is the conclusion?
200
These are the main purposes of expository text.
What is to inform and persuade?
200
Identify the type of figurative language: Margo makes merengue merrily.
What is an alliteration?
300
the narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character
What is third person?
300
These are traditional character types which appear in most stories.
What are archetypes?
300
True or False - An argumentative essay is best written with the opinions of the author as the main evidence.
What is false? The author should back his or her opinions up with facts.
300
These are some types of expository text. (3)
What are articles, speeches, and text books,
300
Identify the figurative language:
"The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
400
The three main purposes that authors write.
What are to inform, to persuade, and to entertain?
400
Differences in this can create effects such as dramatic irony, suspense, or humor.
What is point of view?
400
the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
400
Name at least two things you need to consider and notice when reading an expository text.
What are graphics/figures, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases?
400
Identify the figurative language:
"Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
The author's feelings and thoughts on a particular subject.
What is author's point of view?
500
The five stages of a plot diagram
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
500
This part of an essay provides the reader with the point the author is making, and a little bit about the reasons or evidence the author is providing.
What is the introduction?
500
These are text features used to organize information.
What is description, sequence, comparison, cause and effect, and problem and solution?
500
I saw a man 20 feet tall! His legs were as long as trees, and his feet were as big as boats!